Combined warehouse invoice and freight book.



'No.'a'70,048.

PATENTED NOV. 5,, 1907.

S. M. RICH;

COMBINED WAREHOUSE INVOICE AND FREIGHT BOOK.

APPLICATION IILED JAN.15, 1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SOLOMON M. RICH, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURII Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 5, 1907.

Application filed January 15. 1906- Serial No. 296,096.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SOLOMON M. Rion, a citizen of the United States, and resident of St. Louis, Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined \Varehouse Invoice and Freight Book, of which the following is a specification containing a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention relates to a combination warehouse in voice and freight book, and the object of my invention is to arrange in block form a series of sets of sheets, each of the sets being in turn torn off together, and, after being filled out, the single sheets are separated from each other and delivered to the proper departments, where they are arranged in book form or in temporary binders.

In the present practice of checking, billing, and identifying freight as it is received at the warehouse, it is customary for one person to call off each package, with its weight, contents, number, and other points of identification, while second person writes down these identification points in a warehouse register. It is necessary that the freight department have a copy of these entries, and that there also be a copy made for the invoice book, and in the present practice much time and labor is involved in making these copies.

The object of my invention is to do away with the time and labor involved in copying from the first sheet, and to expedite the work of billing and identifying the packages of freight by providing a series of sheets, pertions of which are uniformly ruled in order that the matter written upon the first sheet may be transferred by means of carbon sheets to the proper columns on the remaining sheets, and thus an identical record is made of all of the sheets, which are afterwards separated and delivered to the proper departments.

To the above purposes, my invention consists of certain novel features of construction and arrangement of parts, which will be hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a block made up of the sets of sheets as contemplated by my invention; Fig. 2 is an edge formed of a single set of the sheets detachcd from the blocks, with the carbon sheets interposed; Fig. 3 is a face view of the first one of the sheets, and which becomes one of the sheets of the warehouse register; Fig. 4 is a face view of the second one of the sheets, which is delivered to and bound into one of thebooks in the freight department; Fig. 5 is a face view of the third sheet, which finally becomes one of the leaves in the invoice book The first or top sheet 1 is approximately rectangular in form, and provided adjacent its left hand edge with a pair of apertures 2 by means of which said sheet is engaged in a loose leaf hinder, or similar device. At

the top of this sheet, or page, appear the words Warehouse Rcgister, together with a line for the date. The face of the sheet is divided into columns by means of the vertically arranged ruled lines3, and said columns are headed consecutively from left to right by the printed words Article, Style, PKG. No, WGT, CONTS., and W. H. No. The remaining columns may be provided with such headings as are required to complete the record of the packages or articles that are enumerated upon this first sheet.

The second sheet 4 is of the same length as is the first one, but much wider, as said second sheet is for the freight department, and there are numerous additional columns required on said sheet to complete the record for said freight department. The words Freight Department are printed at the top of this second sheet 4:, together with a line for the date. The left hand edge of this second sheet 4 is provided with apertures 5 that coincide with the apertures 2 of the sheet 1. The left hand portion of the face of this second sheet 4 is ruled vertically with lines 6, which are spaced so as to coincide with the lines 3 of the sheet 1, thus forming columns which are uniform with the columns on the sheet 1.- These uniformly sized columns are headed with the words Article, Style, PKG. No, WGT, CONTS, and W. H; No. The same is a head for the columns on the sheet 1. The right hand portion of the face of the sheet 4 is ruled so as to form vertical colmuns 7, which are provided with suitable headings, and in which columns is written matter relating to the identification and record of the packages that are specified and described in the columns divided by the lines 6.

The third or bottom sheet 8 of the set is of the same length as are the two preceding sheets, and the words Invoice Book are printed at the top of said third sheet. Formed adjacent the left hand edge of the sheet 8 is a pair of apertures 9 which are so arranged as to coincide with the apertures 2 and 5 formed in the previously described sheets. The left hand portion of the face of the sheet'8 is ruled with vertical lines 10 which are so spaced as to coincide with the lines 3 and 6 of the upper sheets, and thus a corresponding series of columns is formed on the third sheet, which are headed with the words Article, Style, PKG. No. WGT. OONTS. and W. H. No. The remaining portion of the sheet 8 is divided into columns by the vertical lines 11, which columns are headed with such termsas are essential to the identification and recording of the packages that are recorded in the columns between the lines 10, and which is required in the invoice book.

The sheets as herein described are arranged insets of three, and a large number of the sets are arranged together in block form, as seen in Fig. 1, with the left hand edges held together by suitable adhesive substances. When a consignment of packages are delivered to the warehouse, ,the clerk who makes a record of said packages in the warehouse register tears from the block a set of the sheets, and, after said sheets are removed, carbon sheets 12 are placed between sheets 1 and 4, and between sheets 4 and 8. The set of sheets so prepared is now placed in a writing machine, or, if desired, the record may be made in the proper columns by means of a hard pencil capable of causing an impression to be made by the carbon sheets onto the sheets 4 and 8. The person receiving the packages calls out the article contained in each package, and the recording clerk writes the name of the article in the column that is headed with the word Article. The receiving clerk now calls out the style of the package, and the recording clerk in turn writes down the style number in the column headed Style, This procedure is followed out through all the columns headed PKG. No, WGT., GONTS., and W. H. No; and thus a record of each package is completed inthe columns divided by the vertical lines 3; and this record as it is written down is transferred by means of the carbon sheets to the second and third sheets 4 and 8. When the entire lot of packages have been thus recorded, the sets of sheets are detached from one another; and sheet 1 is delivered to the proper person in the warehouse, and the second sheet 4 delivered to the proper person in the freight department, and the third sheet 8 delivered to the person having charge of the invoice book. Thus, each department has a record of each package, and as said package is delivered to the consignee, or to the proper department, and the proper person ineach department notes upon the sheet belonging to said department additional data, and record of the package, until it is finally disposed of. For instance, the person having charge of the warehouse register can indicate thereon, opposite the record of each package, the location of the package, and the date on which each package was taken from the Warehouse, these notations being in the columns to the right of the columns divided by the vertical lines 3 on sheet 1. The proper person in the freight department can note in the various columns 7 to the right of the columns divided by the vertical lines 6 the amount of freight paid on each particular package, the drayage charges, the railway line which package, part of which records are made as hereinbefore described by the first clerk, or the person who started the record on the warehouse register. When the packages have all been properly disposed of in the various departments, and the records thereof are completed on each sheet, said sheets can be readily assembled in a loose leaf binder, or similar book, and thus a very complete file is kept in each department of all the articles of freight entering the warehouse.

My improved book is applicable for use in large wholesale houses, freight depots, and wherever a large number of packages are transferred, and where it is neces sary to keep a number of records of the packages for different departments, and by arranging the'sheets in sets of threes, the work incident to the original recording of the packages in the various departments is greatly reduced, and much time and labor is saved.

It will be understood that where freight isbeing received in a Warehouse, it is absolutely necessary for several departments to have corresponding or identical data regarding each individual article or piece of freight, and thus by my improved construction of the sheets and arrangement of the ruling thereon, this similar and corresponding data is positively and easily made upon all of the sheets, which are afterwards delivered to the various departments.

I claim: v

A combination book of the class described, comprising a plurality of sets of sheets arranged in block form and detachably connected at one edge, the sheets of each set being; of the same length but of varyingwidths, said sheets being; each provided on portions of their surfaces at their attaching sides with similar markings and rulings registering with each other, and said sheets being provided on their remaining spaces with dissimilar markings and rulings.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in presence of two subscribing witnesses,

SOLOMON M. RICH. Witnesses M. Iv SMITH, E. L. VVALLACE. 

